Machine for inserting tape into edging.



N0. 707,06l. Patented Aug. l2, I902.

E. P. HATCH. MACHINE FOR INSERTING TAPE INTO EDGING.

(Application filed Jan. 6, 1897. Renewed June 12, 1902.)

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(No Model.)

No. 707,061. Patented Aug. I2, 1902.

E. P. HATCH. MACHINE FOB INSEBTING TAPE INTO EDGING.

(Applicatibn filed Jan. 5, 1897. Renewed June 12, 1902.)

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' No. 707,06I. Patented Aug. l2, I902.

E. P. HATCH. I MACHINE FOB INSERTING TAPE INTO EDGING.

(Application filed Jan. 5, 1897. Renewed June 12, 1902.)

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(No Model.)

ATENT O UNITED STATES EDWARD P. IIATCH, OF LAGRANGE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO HIMSELF, UNION SPECIAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS, AND MYRON H. POWELL, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

MACHINE FOR INSERTING TAPE INTO EDGING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,061, dated August 12, 1902.

Application filed January 5,1897. Renewed June 12,1902. Serial No. 111,313. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: vention includes, broadly, a machine for au- Be it known that I, EDWARD P. HATCH, a tomatically inserting tape into meshed edgcitizen of the United States, residing at La ing, comprising means for supporting said grange, in the county of Cook, State of Illiedging, a bodkin to which the tape is at- 5 nois, have invented certain new and useful tached, feeding devices, and means for posi- Improvements inMachines for Preparing tioning the cross or connecting bars of the Edging for the Insertion of Tape, of which edging alternately at opposite sides of the the following is a description, reference beplane of the bodkin-point. ing had to the accompanying drawing andto Secondly, the invention consists in a ma- I0 the letters and figures of reference marked chine for taping meshed edging comprisinga thereon. supporting-Wheel for the edging having pro- My invention relates to a machine for autojecting teeth extending upwardly between the matioally inserting tape into edging-such, cross-bars of said edging, a stationary bodfor instance, as that used upon the necks and kin carrying a tape, means for feeding the 15 shoulders of ladies underwear. This edging edging toward the bodkin, and means for pois of two kinds-cross-bar and pillarsitioning the cross-bars of the edging alterbarand the tape is woven in and outalnately above and below the plane of the bodternately above and below the cross or pillar kin-point. bars for purposes of ornamentation and also Thirdly, theinveution consists ofamachine 20 to provide, by leaving a bow at the ends, for for automatically inserting tape into edging,

drawing up the neck or armholes of the gar comprising a supporting-wheel having teeth ment when they become stretched. This fitting between the cross-bars of the edging, work of taping meshed edging has heretofore a stationary bodkin carrying a tape, and been done by hand, the operator using a bodfeeding-rolls centrally grooved for the recep- 2 5 kin; but even with the most skilful operator tion of the bodkin and toothed to grasp the the work is necessarily slow, and of course as sides of the meshed edging and feed it onto so much handwork is necessary it adds to the the bodkin. cost of the garment. Further, the invention consists in the spe- The object of the present invention is to cial construction and arrangement of feed- 30 provide a machine which shall automatically ing rolls and curved bodkin cooperating insert the tape in the meshed edging, this betherewith, the means for supporting said ing done either after the edging has been curved bodkin,special means for causing the sewed to the garment or else applied to the positioning of the cross-bars alternately upon edging while it is on a long roll or spool, and opposite sides of the plane of the bodkin- 35 when so applied the taped edging is wound point, and in various details of construction on a roll and proper lengths, cut for sewing and arrangement of parts, all as hereinafter on the garments. described, and referred to in theappended The present machine, as will be noticed claims. from the arrangement of driving-wheels, &c.', In the accompanying drawings, which illus- 40 was designed especially for the insertion of trate my invention, Figure 1 representsa side tape into the edging after the latter hadbeen elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a top plan sewed to the garment; but so far as the op view, a portion of the top plate beingremoved crating features are concerned the machine to show the operating-gear. Fig. 3 is a permaybe used to insert long lengths of tape in spective view of the means for positioning 45 edging before it has been attached to the garthe cross-bars of the edging. Fig. 4 is a face ment. View of the cam which operates the device Prior to my invention, so far asIam aware, shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail View of it has never been proposed to automatically the bodkin or, as I prefer to call it if made insert tape in edging, and therefore the inof greatlength, an edging-holder. Fig. 6 is the machine-table.

a plan view showing both cross-bar and pillar-bar edging, and Fig. 7 shows the position taken by the cross-bars when the edging is placed on-the supporting-wheel.

In the drawings, A represents the framework of the machine, comprising a suitable base, as B, which is adapted to be screwed to The wheels 0 D E and clutch F show the means by which power may be applied to the machine in any suitable manner, while G represents a hand-wheel which may be used to turnthe parts. These parts just mentioned are not features of special importance, and no further reference is made to them. I

H represents what may be called .an actuating-shaft proper of the machine, and this is provided with a gear-wheel 1, meshing into a gear-Wheel 2 on the counter-shaft, which in turn meshes with a gear 3 on the shaft I. This shaft I is journaled in the frame of the machine in the bearing K and carries on its outer end a roller or hub L, provided with vertically-projecting beveled teeth 4, preferably of width sufficient at the base so that when cross or pillar bar edging is placed over said teeth the latter will fit between the pairs of cross bars and perhaps even spread slightly, or, if desired, the teeth at their base may be provided with a perfectly vertical or even slightly-undercut portion 5, so that the two cross-bars, as shown, will fit snugly therein. The shaft H is extended through the machine-frame and provided on its outer end with a corrugated or racked roller M, which meshes into a gear or roller 6, in turn meshing with a roller 7. The roller 7, as well as the roller 6, is either attached to a countershaft or, as herein shown, journaled on a screw-stud to the machine-frame. The roller M is preferably above the plane of the other two rollers mentioned, and above the same, mounted on a sliding head, are two racked or corrugated rollers N O, journaled on screwstuds mounted on the downwardly-projecting inclined arms 8, which in turn are attached to the vertical part 9, moving in ways on the upright part 10 of the machine-frame and having the slot-and-bolt connection 11 12 with said part 10 and being elevated by a pivoted cam-lever 13, attached to the part 9 and bearing against the part 10, but being retracted by a spring 14. When these rollers N O are lowered, they mesh with the roller M and the three form a triangularly-shaped figure, as shown. In the rotation of the roller M the others are of course also rotated. Springs 15 may be provided to draw the rollers N 0 down to their work in case it is not desired to screw the angle-arms 8 tightly to the sliding part 9.

The rollers M, N,and O are formed witha central peripheral groove, or, rather, with an uncorrugated central peripheral portion, and the two upper rollers N O, with the lower roller M, embrace between them the bodkin P, which is adapted to fit within the grooves 16, 17, and 18 on the rollers M, N, and O, saidbodkin being curved, as shown, to conform to the periphery of said rollers and being held securely in place by the rollers N and O, which bear down upon the parts 19 20 of the bodkin, and thus hold the part 21 from all danger of getting out of place. The tail of the bodkin is curved to conform to the periphery of the roller 7 and fits down over the same and is provided with on eye 22 to receive the end of the tape. The point of the bodkin is held adjacent the outer portion of the teeth 4, and I will now proceed to describe the construction herein shown for positioning the cross-bars of the edging alternately upon one side or the other of the bodkin-point. It will be understood, however, that so far as the broad claims of this application are con cerned I do not Wish to be limited to anyspecial construction for so positioning the crossbars. Secured upon the shaft I is the wheel Q, having on its inner face a cam-groove 23 of the shape shown, in which fits an antifriction-roller 24, secured in the end of an arm 25, which at its opposite end is secured to a rock-shaft 26,journaled on the machine-frame in the bearing 27. Adjacent the outer end of the bearing 27 upon the rock-shaft 26 is placed a split sleeve 28, having an upwardlyextending curved arm 29, which preferably extends over the bearing K to a point somewhere near alinement with the end of the bodkin. This arm 29 has attached at its outer end a lug 30, to which is pivoted the arm 31, normally held by the spring 32 in the position shown in Fig. 3. This arm 29 by means of the sleeve 28 is loose on the rock-shaft, but is normally held down in operative position by means of the spring 33, by which the lug or arm 34, secured to the arm 29, is held in engagement with the horizonal arm S, having the sleeve at its inner end clamped to the rockshaft. This arm S has at its outer end an upwardly-extending arm 35, which carries at its upper end, parallel with the arm 31, a finger or arm 36. Instead of having the arm 34 bear directly on the arm S, I provide a screw 37, which passes through the arm S and acts as a stop for the lug or arm 34, thus holding the arm 29 against the action of its spring 33 and regulating the distance between the fingers 31 and 36.

It will be seen that in the rotation of the shaft H the rock-shaft 26 will be oscillated and the fingers 31 and 36 alternately raised and lowered, thus as the edging passes between them automatically positioning the cross-bars of the edging alternately upon opposite sides of the plane in which the forward end of the bodkin lies, and as the roller L and rollers M, N, and O are rotating the edging will be fed upon the bodkin, which, if very long, acts as a holder for long lengths of edging, or if it is short and carries a tape the edging will be forced past the bodkin onto the tape, the latter being thus automatically threaded through said edging, or if the bodkin carries atape and is simply filled with the edging the tape may be easilydrawn through the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is- I 1. A machine for automatically inserting tape into meshed edging comprising a rotatable support for the edging having teeth registering with the spaces between the bars of said edging, a bodkin to which the tape is attached, feeding devices, and means for positioning the cross or connecting bars of the' edging alternately at opposite sides of the forward end of the bodkin; substantially as described.

2. A machine for automatically inserting tape into meshed edging comprising a supporting-wheel for the edging having projecting teeth extending upwardly between the cross-bars of said edging, a stationary bodkin carrying a tape, means for feeding the edging toward the bodkin, and means for positioning the cross-bars of the edging alternately above and below the forward end of the bodkin; substantially as described.

A machine for automatically inserting tape into meshed edging comprising a supporting-wheelhaving teeth extending through the meshes and fitting between the cross-bars of the edging, a stationary bodkin carrying a tape and means for positioning the cross-bars of the edging alternatelyabove and below the forward end of the bodkin, and feeding-rolls centrally grooved for the reception of the bodkin and toothed to grasp the sides of the meshed edging and feed it onto the bodkin; substantially as described.

4. A machine for automatically inserting tape or the like into edging or other material comprising a supporting-wheel, a stationary bodkin arranged with its point adjacent the supporting-wheel, feeding-rolls for grasping the material after it is on the bodkin, and

means located between the bodkin-pointand the supporting-wheel forpositioning the crossbars of the edging alternately above and below the bodkin-point; substantially as described.

5. The combination with a stationary bodkin,a wheel having teeth adapted to enter the meshes of edging, vibrating fingers for positioning cross or connecting bars forming the meshes of the edging alternately at opposite sides of the forward end of the bodkin, said vibrating fingers being located between the wheel and the forward end of the bodkin, means for feeding edging upon the bodkin comprising rollers located back of the point of the bodkin and adapted to grasp the material; substantially as described.

6. In an apparatus for inserting tape into meshed edging, a bodkin carrying a tape, a rotatory support for the edging, having teeth registering with the meshes in the edging and a vibrating member between the support for the edging and the bodkin-point whereby the cross-bars of the edging are alternately positioned above and below the bodkin-point; substantially as described.

7. In combination, a bodkin, a support therefor, and a rotatory support for meshed edging having teeth registering with the meshes in said edging, means for alternately positioning the cross-bars of the edging above and below the bodkin-point, and means for feeding the meshed edging onto the bodkin; substantially as described.

8. An apparatus for inserting tape into meshed edging comprising a stationary bodkin carrying a tape, a supporting device for delivering the edging to the bodkin. which supporting device has means for engaging the meshes of the edging, and a vibrating member arranged between the support for the edging and the bodkin-point, which vibrating member alternately positions the cross bars of the edging above and below the bodkin-point; substantially as described.

9. In a machine for inserting tape or the like into edging or other material, means for feeding the material, a bodkin carrying the tape, fingers located adjacent the point of the bodkin between which the edging or other material passes, a rock-shaft with means for oscillating it, an arm rigidly attached to said rock-shaft to which arm one of said fingers is secured, and a second arm to which the other finger is secured sleeved on the rock-shaft and held normally in engagement with the first arm, whereby it is operated with said first arm, the fingers being thereby raised and lowered; substantially as and for the purpose specified. I

10. In a machine for inserting tape or the like into edging or other material, means for feeding the material, a bodkin carrying the tape, fingers located adjacent the point of the bodkin between which the edging or other material passes, a rock-shaft with means for oscillating it, an arm rigidly attached to said rock-shaft to which arm one of said fingers is secured, and a second arm to which the other finger is secured sleeved on the rock-shaft, a spring normally holding said second arm in position to be positively raised by the up ward movement of the lower arm and for lowering it as the lower arm is dropped, whereby the fingers carried by the arms are raised and lowered; substantially as and for the purpose specified.

11. In a machine for inserting tape or the like into edging or other material, means for feeding the material, a bodkin carrying the tape, fingers located adjacent the point of the bodkin between which the edging or other material passes, a rock-shaft with means for oscillating it, an arm rigidly attached to said rock-shaft to which arm one of said fingers is secured, and a second arm to which the other finger is secured sleeved on the rock-shaft, and having a projection or arm 34., a spring normally holding the projection 34: against the first arm whereby the arms and the fingers carried thereby are raised and lowered in unison; substantially as described.

12. In a machine of the eharaeterdeseribed, a bodkin, asupporting-Wheel for meshed edging having vertically-projecting beveled teeth passing through the meshes of the edging and fitting between the cross-bars thereof, means for positioning the material alternately upon opposite sides of the forward end of the bodkin and feeding-rollers arranged above and below the bodkin and grooved to receive the same and adapted to feed the material onto the bodkin; substantially as described. 13. Inamaehine ofthe eharaeterdeseribed,

a bodkin, a supporting-wheel for the meshed edging having projecting tapered teeth to fit between the bars of said edging, said teeth at their base being of Width suffieient to snugly fit, or even slightly spread the cross-bars and means for positioning the material above and below the bodkin-point; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD P. HATCH. [L. s] Witnesses:

CHESTER MCNEIL, JAMEs R. TROWBRIDGE. 

